Transforming growth factor β and diastolic left ventricular dysfunction after heart transplantation: Echocardiographic and histologic evidence

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 663-673

  Aziz, Tarek M ^a   Burgess, Malcolm I ^a   Haselton, Philip S ^a   Yonan, Nizar A ^a   Hutchinson, Ian V ^b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0038799785     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(02)00657-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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